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At the age of seven Enrico Euron begins studing music with the aged organist in the church of his birth place. At thirteen he is aedmitted at Torino's Conservatory, Giuseppe Verdi.

He graduates in Organ and Organistic Composition with M° Guido Donati and he obtains the "Compimento inferiore in Composizione Principale". He specializes in medieval music and at a stage in Forlimpopoli he meets and he studies with Marco Ambrosini of the Clemencic Consort. In the meantime he studies violin and Orchestra Direction with a privately.

He starts the concertistic career as an organist. His first compositions are played and they earn full consent ("Divertimento per pianoforte e orchestra",1986; "Fanfara per un deportato",1988). He becomes vicedirector and clavicembalist of the orchestra "Il Ruscello" of Torino

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He directs Torino's orchestra "Harmonia Mundi for three years. He obtains the Organ's chair at Collegno's Musical Assosiation, to which Orchestrals Exercitations is added short after. He startscollaborating with medieval music groups.

He begins the studies of Etnomusicology at the litterary faculty at the university of Torino. His historical interests brings him to the Irish and Breton's musical tradition.

He starts visiting Bretagne:where he studies celtic harp with Myrdhin; he also partecipates at the "Trophee International Carolan", where he is the third classified, and at the "Trophee International Aiwan", where he obtains the public jury prize with his composition "Ered Lomin" after included in the CD, Aisling.

Maintaining contacts with Bretagne he travels to Ireland, where he studies traditional celtic harp tecniques with Emer Mc Laverty and Mìcheal Rooney, members of the "Belfast Harp orchestra". In the following years, he starts the celtic harp concertistic career, which brings him to play in Italy, France, Ireland and Germany.

He continues the studies in Scotland, with Savourna Stevenson, and in Italy he obtains the celtic harp chair at Collegno's Musical Assosiation. His historical and musicological studies brings him to collaborate with the University , in particular with professor Melita Cataldi, who is the teacher of Irish Litterature History in the Torino's university.
He is second at the "O'Carolan Harp Competition", the main competition of celtic harp in Ireland.

He publishes "Metodo per Arpa Celtica" in two volumes, with Arpitalia (CO). His method is stil today the only available in Italian. He is more often occupated in conferences and seminaries on Irish music history and on traditional celtic harp tecniques. He starts the group Tuatha De Danann with the intentof rebuilding and playing the acient Irish repertory, following a historical approach. The concerts with the group collect immediately an enourmus public success, also because of the members' habit to tell the audience the peculiarities and the origin of the played music. The group Tuatha De Danann records its first CD, Aisling (1995).

Leaving the accademic concertism for the main part, with the Tuatha De Danann, he exibits all over Italy. He holds conferences on history of music in Ireland and on celtic harp tecniques. The second CD Awen (1997) is released. The Tuatha De Danann win the first prize at the competition "I Big di Torinosette".

He publishes the collection "Irish Harpers in the XVII and XVIII century", which contains a large historic part, beyond the reconstruction of inedit music passages. The third CD, Duana (1999) is released; it recalls some aspects of the "Belfast Harp Festival" in 1792. The concerts of the group are now over 300 only in Italy.

His book "L'arpa dei Celti - Storia dell'Arpa e degli Arpisti in Irlanda" is published by the publishing house Trauben of Torino; it is a monografic treatise on the celtic harp. He organizes Feasta, international festival on Celtic Harp, with the help of some members of the Tuatha De Danann; thousands of people from all the Northern part of Italy partecipate at the first edition.

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He holds seminaries in different conservatories on the traditional celtic harp tecnique. These courses are mainly addressed to teachers and to Dip. holders, but they soon become a privileged meeting point for all lovers of Irish Harp.
He is invited at the most important Italian and European events:
from Torino's Folk Club to Palazzo Te in Mantova, from Rencontres Internationales d'Harpe Celtique in Bretagne to The Celtic Festival in Courmayeur and Triskell, Trieste's celtic festival.
Together with Marco Picca he founds the new duet celtic harp-guitar, which opens new horizons for Irish music in Italy.
In 2002 he starts the first experimental development course for celtic harp at Castelfreanco Veneto's conservatory, which is the first Italian conservatory that has created a course for Celtic Harp. He is also invited to direct the international course for high development for celtic harp at the Accademia Musicale Romana.
He plays with the most importat Italian and foreign musicians, as Vincenzo Zitello, Mirdhin, Grainne Hambly, Stefano Corsi. He is invited as guest harper in the Italian Tour 2003 of the Irish group THE CHIEFTAINS.
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